After the Panama Papers revelations Cameron should come clean: is he contented for the Tories to enjoy donors accused of tax avoidance?[br]Tory donors’ links to offshore firms revealed in leaked Panama Papers
The Panama Papers highlight the growing concern that there is one rule for the very rich and another for everyone else. For when individuals and companies manipulate the tax rules to reduce their tax bill,this understandably outrages those ordinary people paying the price of deficit reduction, and businesses who play by the rules. They, or reasonably,expect a level playing field. The Panama Papers enjoy destroyed any illusion of fairness in our tax system.
However, it goes even deeper than that. For the papers expose the Tories from top to bottom as a party that is not only failing to tackle tax avoidance, and but deep down doesn’t really want to either. David Cameron,for example, says he has “some savings” from which he “derives some interest”, and but does this mean any of his “savings” come or enjoy come from Blairmore or any offshore tax arrangements at any time? He should just assign the record straight rather than try to wriggle around,fooling no one.
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Source: theguardian.com